Western Animation / Monster Buster Club

Left to right: Cathy, Sam, Chris, and Danny.

"Hi! My name is Cathy. My grandpa and I came from planet Rhapsodia to power up an age-old secret society. With my new friends, our mission is to battle troublemaking aliens around Singletown. We are... the Monster Buster Club!"

— Cathy Smith, the opening sequence

Monster Buster Club is a French-Canadian co-produced computer-animated series which ran from 2007 to 2009 on Jetix, YTV and TF 1 which was produced by Marathon, the animation company where Totally Spies! and Martin Mystery were created and Image Entertainment Corporation. It's about a foursome of twelve-year-olds (Sam, Chris, Danny, and Cathy) who, as members of an "age-old" secret society called the Monster Buster Club, protect the city of Singletown from troublemaking aliens.

The four kids are all surprisingly mature for their age; not only do they not seem to depend on their parents, they've been seen to hold part-time paying jobs in spite of being twelve years old. Their only adult supervision comes from Cathy's grandfather, a well-meaning alien disguised as an old man who oversees the Monster Buster Club's operations, although he's far from a reliable mentor, being much more interested in tending to his garden.

In each episode, the kids' everyday affairs are interrupted by one of the outrageous alien villains from their Rogues Gallery (often with a bizarre, harebrained scheme such as turning the entire planet Earth into an exclusive nightclub), whom the kid heroes must suit up and stop. Along the way, they must also deal with obnoxious millionaire Mark and their school principal, Ms. Rollins, who was an officer in the armed services and runs the school like a battleground.

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Tropes:

• 2D Visuals, 3D Effects: Inverted in one episode, with the normally 3D show having a TV show in 2D animation.
• Academy of Adventure: Singletown Middle School, at least for our heroes. Everyone else is unaware of the alien-battling that takes place there.
• Action Girl: Sam and Cathy both qualify.
• Action-Hogging Opening: The opening titles focus more on action than on any of the show’s other features.
• Adorably Precocious Child: John is a mix of this and Annoying Younger Sibling.
• Agent Scully: Mr. Fusster. Subverted in that he's just putting on an act and he actually knows that aliens do exist. Unfortunately, Word of God says that he and the MBC will never know if Mr. Fusster is an alien.
• Alien Invasion: The Spoilers destroying Singletown in "Famous Four (Part One)".
• Aliens Speaking English: Seems like every being in the galaxy only has one language.
• All Animals Are Dogs: Moppy looks like a cat, but behaves like a dog.
• All Part of the Show: In the episode "Acting Out", Wedge attacks Cathy during the Romeo and Juliet school play, forcing the other busters to intervene in full view of their classmates. Thankfully, they manage to make the whole thing pass for a Sci-Fi retake of the play with John's help.
• All There in the Manual: The show's website.
• Alpha Bitch: Wendy usually fills this role, but she does have moments of niceness
• Ambiguously Brown:
  • Chris and his little brother John
• Ambiguously Gay:
  • Ralph. In "Sore Winner", he takes his role as a Warrior Princess.
  • Roy carried Mark like a princess in "Sticky Situation".
• Amusing Alien: Casanova, Mr. Smith's favorite plant.
• Anchovies Are Abhorrent: In "Frogs in Space", the MBC hates anchovy-flavored pizza but Cathy eats it. She finds out from her grandfather that she's allergic to anchovies.
• And Now You Must Marry Me:
  • Krog to Principal Rollins in "Me Krog, You Rollins".
  • Mimi to Mr. Fusster in "Here Comes the Bride".
• Anime Hair: Danny stands out compared to everyone’s more normal looks.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: John, Chris's kid brother. His attempts to help… don’t. At least most of the time.
• Artificial Human: Danny and Sam's clones, D34 and S2. Turns out those two robots want to destroy and replace Danny and Sam.
• Art Shift: Two-dimensional art, such as posters and pictures, are rendered in Animesque style.
• Ass-Kicking Pose: At the end of their Transformation Sequence
• Baby Planet: Planet Nebulak, which looks like a bowling ball.
• Badass Normal: Even without their weapons they can still kick alien butt. Except Chris.
• Bad Santa: Dingle, but he's actually sharing joy in Christmas.
• Batman Gambit: Danny pulls off one of these in "World's Toughest Kid", tricking Brian by switching the direction of the zapper he was holding, so when Brian took it from him, he ended up shooting himself.
• Berserk Button:
  • Never disturb Sam while she's playing video games.
  • In "The End of Everything (Part Two)", Danny gets angry since Cathy is missing.
• Big Eater:
  • Cathy, who has two stomachs, at least one of which is removable.
  • Baby alien Tina, as well as the rest of her species, fittingly called Eater Aliens.
• Big Fancy House: Mark's house. Justified, due to how rich he is.
• Big Red Button: In "The-Forget-Me-Stone", some of the MBC supercomputer buttons can lead to pitfalls.
• Bigger on the Inside: They can not fit that entire elaborate base into a small wooden shed.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: Cathy, her Grandpa, and all other aliens.
• Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Grampa Smith, in his true form, looks like a sort of blue-skinned fish-fly thing with four limbs. Cathy's true form, on the other hand, has six tentacle-like limbs, white skin with pink spots, three crests on her head, and a squirrel-like tail. This is assuming that Grandpa Smith and Cathy belong to the same species; Cathy may well be adopted, seeing that we never hear anything about her birth parents.
• Blatant Lies:
  • King Petalia XIII claims that he's the former ruler of seventeen planets, and twenty four moons, give or take an asteroid.
  • Glor Glenemore is a self-proclaimed thief in the galaxy, but he gets clumsy every time he's doing his mission.
• Blob Monster: Addison's real form — the Morphering Glob.
• Brainless Beauty: Wendy isn’t the most sensible person.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Danny, Wendy and Ralph in "Battle of the Bands".
  • The kids (except Danny, Chris and Cathy) in "Comic Book Heroes".
  • Mark, Ralph, and Roy in "Stupid Human Tricks".
• Brought Down to Normal: In "Sticky Situation", Cathy ended up losing her powers but she gets them back later on thanks to her grandfather's antidote.
• Bucket Helmet: Sam in "Mindreader" and Jeremy in "Forget-Me-Stone". Neither case works as plans.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: The kids all cry "MBC! Po-o-o-o-wer up!", when transforming.
• Catchphrase:
  • Cathy: "Zeewa!", "Ginchy!", and other Rhapsodian slang that she only understands.
  • MBC, especially Sam: "Let's bust them!"
• Cardboard Prison: Wedge, the red Reptilian Morpher, and Agar do that.
• Celebrity Star: Brain Adamapple is an alien version of this.
• Cheaters Never Prosper: Proskar. Danny reveals that Proskar didn't follow one of the rules in Parchugal — a game can be declared over if everyone has played.
• Chekhov's Skill: In "The Trouble with Troublemaking", Danny's able to solve Cathy's Rhapsodian Puzzle Stick but it took him around two days. Later on, Danny uses the puzzle stick to knock out Gluten.
• City of Adventure: Singletown, the trio’s home. Justified, since Their founder was an alien.
• Class Trip: "Pipe Dreams". Who wants to go on a field trip in the city sewers?
• Cliffhanger: The last episode "Goodbye Earth" ends with the MBC returning to Earth after the virus is eliminated. Word of God states that Cathy and Mr. Smith will continue to stay on Earth as along as there are evil aliens in town, while the MBC continues to hunt alien criminals.
• Closer to Earth: Sam is very much the Only Sane Woman to Cathy’s Fish out of Water, Chris’ Cute, but Cacophonic and Danny’s Small Name, Big Ego
• Closet Shuffle: The MBC does this in few episodes. They even use it to take a shortcut to the clubhouse once.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Cathy, big time. Though it’s less “has no idea of reality” and more “no idea of how things work on Earth”
• Collector of the Strange:
  • Gilbert and other Packrats.
  • Speedy's twin brother, Veedy kidnaps humans for his art gallery called "Galaxy's Strangest Creatures".
• Colonel Badass: The Galactic Commander, though we seldom see him in action.
• Color-Coded Characters: The MBC suits are color-coded according to the member's V-coms. Cathy wears pink, Danny wears red, Sam wears yellow, Chris wears blue and Elton wears green. Does this remind you of Power Rangers?
• Cool Shades: The function of MBC's visors are similar to A-Scanner.
• Cool Ship: The MBC Pods, used for transport.
• Cool Old Guy: Mr. Smith, Cathy’s grandfather and a Retired Badass
• Crazy-Prepared: The MBC always has gadgets to use.
• Cultured Badass:
  • Cathy is shown to be knowledgeable in Rhapsodian culture as well as some customs in other planets.
  • Sam, who enjoys painting and fine arts.
• Cute and Psycho: Tina is like this when she eats Glusock crackers.
• Cyborg: Fibeloids, like Swampdweller each have a metal left arm and an electronic right eye.
• Death Trap: Chris, Sam and Cathy in "Battle Of The Bands".
• Determinator: Brian and his group of purple armored Stickes have interest in sports and other physical challenges.
• Distressed Dude: Elton, in "Mindreader", courtesy of robots who want to use his mind reading.
• Dogs Are Dumb: Matisse, Wendy's pet, who sets off a plot with his stupidity.
• Dumb Blonde: Cathy, concerning everything related to Earth.
• Easy Amnesia: "The Forget-Me-Stone" can induce this.
• Eccentric Mentor: Mr. Smith to the current MBC.
• Embarrassing First Name: Mr. Smith's first name is Hugo.
  Sam: She didn't seem so sensitive to me... Hugo.
  (Cathy chuckles)
• EMP: The episode "Pipe Dreams" has Mr. Smith using an EMP (though not called as such exactly, as it's alien technology) to disable the machines of the Invader of the Week before he'd unearth the MBC tunnels and absorb a good part of the town with his Tractor Beam. Unfortunately, it disables the kids' weapons and other gizmos as well, so they have to take out the menace hand-to-hand.
• Ensemble Cast: There are four main characters who get roughly equal spotlight.
• Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Galactic Commander. His name is actually Zubin.
• Eye Catch: A black background with the show's logo appearing on top.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: Cathy loves cooking.
• Fictional Video Game
  • Blastraton 3000 in "Flower King".
  • Tough City's 3 Racer Game in "Aliens on the Fast Track".
• First-Name Ultimatum:
  • In "The Whole Truth", Mr. Fusster calls Danny, "Daniel" twice.
  • Happens to Sam (Samantha) in few episodes.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Cathy and Danny are both sanguine, Sam is choleric, and Chris is melancholic. As for the other members, John is melancholic while Elton is phlegmatic.
• Free-Range Children: Do any of these kids have parents?
• Freudian Excuse: Wedge wants to get revenge on his rival Stanley Caminski and his successful career. Stanley says to MBC that Wedge's clients usually eat their audiences in the middle of the show.
• Fun with Acronyms: Cathy has a gadget G.P.U.D.F. or Great Powered Ultimate Direction Finder in "Camping Out".
• Gadget Watches: The MBC's V-Coms, used for transforming and communication.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Chris, John, and Jeremy have all played this role to the MBC.
• The Game Come to Life: The MBC is forced to play Proskar's board game called "Parchugal". Parchugal is also a popular game in planet Gunyatto.
• Gang of Hats: Pincherbots, Armor Stickies, and Clipperbots. All three armies look alike.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: There are four members of the team, two girls and two boys.
• Gone to the Future: In one of the episodes, Danny accidentally goes to the future and sees alien invaders destroying Singletown. Whats worse is that the MBC's secret is revealed through Mark's website. Good thing that the MBC Set Right What Once Went Wrong by taking Mark's video camera.
• Grand Theft Me: In "Lizard's Tails", the Reptilian Morpher switches bodies with Danny in order to steal the MBC's power supply — the Mobato flower.
• Great Big Book of Everything: The MBC Alien Archives. They can be seen on MBC's supercomputer.
• Group Hug: In "The End of Everything (Part Two)", after capturing Nossida.
• Hate Plague: In "Outcraker's Badland Galaxy Tour", the MBC argued with each other because of Outcraker's schemes. They don't realize that their teamwork is required in order to continue their authorization to the club.
• Heel Realization:
  • Speedy learns that stealing is illegal on Earth, unlike on his home planet where it is allowed.
  • The MBC manage to solve Gilbert's problem by giving him a Vacuvator to keep his comic collections without any mess.
• History Repeats: "Statue of Limitations" has the MBC having to stop an alien from pulling off a scheme thwarted by the original MBC.
• Homemade Inventions: Some of the MBC gears were created by Chris or John.
• Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Moochie's terrible voice can cause damage to buildings.
• Horrible Camping Trip: In "Camping Out", Chris admits that he hates camping. Meanwhile, the rest of MBC members and Mr. Smith have trouble searching for a special flower and setting up camp.
• Human Aliens: Subverted. All of them are wearing a disguise.
• Humanoid Aliens. Most of the aliens are this, but some aren’t.
• Humanshifting: Aliens can shapeshift into human forms.
• Humongous Mecha:
  • Gilbert's clown-like robot in "Comic Book Heroes".
  • In "Beware of Frogs", Herptilius and his crew steal many electrical devices to built a giant robot.
  • His robot also appeared in "The End of Everything (Part Two)", but there's no operator inside.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: In the French dub, episodes are numbered "Rule" (not the actual MBC rule numbers that the main characters mentioned).
• Improbable Age: Kathy’s age, which is well in advance of 100, but never kept straight.
• Innocent Aliens: Some of the aliens, such as the Speed Morpher, are Non Malicious Monsters.
• Intentionally Awkward Title: In Disney XD, one of the show's episodes is called "Stupid Human Tricks" instead of "Silly Human Tricks".
• Iron Lady: Principal Rollins acts like an army colonel, unless Mr. Smith is around.
• Junior High: Where the MBC are based
• Kid Hero: The main characters are kids who fight alien criminals.
• Kissing Cousins: Cathy's big secret is that she kissed her cousin Elton on a dare.
• Last-Name Basis: Kids in Singletown addresses the adults (except their parents) by their last names.
• Legacy Character: The Monster Buster Club has been ongoing for 200 years.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: The MBC are looking for clues, obviously.
• Licensed Game: There's one for the Nintendo DSi. However, you have to download that game via DSiWare.
• Like Father, Like Son: Nosidda. His name spelled backwards is "Addison". He follows his father's dream — turn Singletown into a place for aliens.
• Limited Wardrobe: Everyone is always shown wearing the same everyday outfit. Cathy is always wearing her pink shirt and pants with the green top, Sam is always wearing her yellow shirt with the white pants, Chris is always wearing his blue outfit, Danny is always wearing his purple hoodie with the orange pants, etc.
• Madness Mantra: "We are not lollygagging! We are not lollygagging!"
• Magic Dance: Cathy and Mr. Smith do this to activate their powers.
• The Masquerade: Both aliens and MBC members keep their true identities secret.
• May–December Romance: Mr. Smith is a thousand years older than Principal Rollins. Principal Rollins has had secret feelings for Mr. Smith ever since she found out that he's worked in the military before. (He has, just not the one she's thinking of.)
• Meaningful Name: Mr. Smith's first name "Hugo" means "intelligent" in Spanish.
• The Men in Black : The MBC, in practice
• Messy Pig: The Dunderthunker eats the town's electrical devices.
• Miles Gloriosus: The Galactic Commander. In "Famous Four (Part Two)", he reveals that he can't fight without his backup.
• Mind-Control Device: Gilbert's Hypno-Orthodontics.
• Mind over Matter: Cathy has displayed this power at times. She calls it an "old Rhapsodian energy trick".
• Monster of the Week: The show’s usual format, but some of them do return in later episodes.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Matisse is named after Henri Matisse, a French painter in 20th century.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: What can't Cathy do!? Word of God says that she's capable of learning all kinds of extraordinary abilities.
• Non-Action Guy: Elton and Jeremy during their brief tenures with the Club.
• Nonindicative Name: Monster Buster Club is about four kids hunting and busting alien enemies. However, aliens are not considered as monsters.
• Noodle Incident
  • Cathy mentioned that the MBC was created centuries ago. She didn't explained about the history of the club, though. Unfortunately, Word of God says that he doesn't know the details about the origin of MBC. All he knows is that Addison Single is the founder of Singletown and he wanted to create a place where aliens and human will live peacefully together.
  • Not to mention Cathy and her wacky experiences back in Rhapsodia.
• Noodle People: Human beings, excluding fat people.
• No Social Skills: Cathy is clueless about Earth and its inhabitants.
• Obviously Evil: In "The Trouble with Troublemaking", Gluten is supposed to be disguised as the detention monitor, but does nothing but look psychotic and shout things like "No talking!" repeatedly. After he drops the act and starts acting like his normal alien self he acts perfectly normal. He explains that he was under the impression that's how detention monitors normally act.
• One-Winged Angel: Nosidda can turn into a giant.
• Opening Narration: "Hi! My name is Cathy..."
• Our Founder: Addison Single, with a side order of That's No Statue.
• Palette Swap: Alien villains from "The End of Everything".
• Parental Abandonment: The parents of MBC members are never revealed but they are mentioned in the show. So does other kids (except Ralph whose father appears in two episodes) in Singletown. Word of God says that the kids' parents might be featured in the third season, if it ever happens.
• Pardon My Klingon: Cathy, in spades, but not swearing so much as speaking in Gratuitous Rhapsodian.
• People Zoo: Gluten runs one. He targets Cathy because he wants a Rapsodian.
• Plant Aliens: Mr. Smith's exotic plants. King Petalia XIII and other plants from his home planet are also included in this trope.
• Portal Network: In "Clean Sweep", there's a hidden portal that leads to the garbage planet.
• Powers as Programs: In "Sticky Situation", Cathy's powers are transferred to Wendy.
• Primal Fear: Sam is afraid of spiders.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: In "It's Not Good to be King", the Zugrabians like Crunger believe that kidnapping their arch enemy's emperor or his family will restore their honor.
• The Psycho Rangers: The Monster Beater Club in "Monster Beaters".
• Raised by Grandparents: Cathy‘s parents/Hugo’s kids are never seen.
• Really 700 Years Old: Cathy, Mr. Smith and other Rhapsodians are over hundreds of years old.
• Real Name as an Alias: Is Cathy's name her nickname or her real name? Or is her full name is too long? Or maybe it would just sound like gibberish to us. Many fans, especially in fanfiction, prefer to call her "Catherine".
• Recruit Teenagers with Attitude: Implied to be how Danny, Chris and Sam ended up in the club
• Revenge: One of the common reasons villains return to fight against the MBC. The following aliens are notable examples of this trope:
  • Gluten
  • Grandmother Octovore, plus her husband.
  • Addison Single
• Retired Badass: Mr. Smith was a former MBC member and is still admired by the people of the Galaxy.
• Reused Character Design: Character designs are recycled a lot. Disguised aliens that the MBC uncovered and caught sometimes reappear as normal human background characters.
• Revenge Before Reason: Crunger and other Zugrabians.
• The Rival:
  • Mark is this to Danny.
• Rubber Man: Cathy can stretch her limbs.
• Rule #1: "MBC Rule number one — the Monster Buster Club must be kept secret." Breaking this rule will cause the MBC to disband and members will no longer access its technology.
• Scars Are Forever: Danny has a little scar on his left eyebrow. It's not explained how he got it, though.
• School Play: "Acting Out" focuses on Cathy being cast in one.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Mark believes money entitled him to anything.
• Secret-Keeper: John knows the team’s identities. How is never explained.
• Secret Test of Character: The MBC qualifies this. According to the Word of God, the process in joining the club is very secret and the members will only ask you if you want to join once.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Nerdy Chris and brash jock Danny.
• Sensual Spandex: They even glow in the dark, too.
• Shout-Out
  • In the episode "The Trouble with Troublemaking", Cathy is sent to Room 101 for her detention.
  • In "Princess Sam", Danny mentions "E.T. phone home!"
  • There is a certain episode where Cathy says "Jinkies!"
  • In "Galaxy's Strangest Creatures", there's a Matrix reference inside the school and warehouse.
  • There's another one in "New Recruits", where an alien enemy does the Bullet Time thing.
  • In "The Battle of the Bands", at the gym you'll find a poster at the left which resembles the head of the three main characters from Totally Spies!
• Sick Episode: Cathy comes down with a bad case of allergy in "Dog Daze" and cold in "It's Not Good to Be King". Not only she's sick, but those illnesses affect her powers as well.
• The Smart Guys: Chris for the MBC; Jeremy in general.
• Sixth Ranger: Elton temporarily joins the team in "The End Of Everything (Part 2)", filling in for Cathy.
• Sneeze of Doom: Cathy catching an Earth cold causes her head to occasionally become huge, and then sneeze with enough strength to send everybody tumbling in a good radius. At first it's an inconvenience threatening to ruin her cover, but then she weaponizes it against an hostile alien.
• Spectacular Spinning: In "Famous Four (Part One)", Danny spins his pod to impress his friends until he accidentally goes to the MBC's time tube that leads him to the future (see: Gone to the Future).
• Speech Impediment: Gilbert, but he speaks clearly in "Laugh Attack".
• Speed Stripes: Speed Morpher has one.
• Spell My Name with a "The": Danny's own nickname, "The Danny".
• Split-Screen Reaction: No episode go without at least one.
• Spoiled Brat: Mark. See Screw the Rules, I Have Money!.
• Starfish Aliens: Most of the aliens have diverse designs and power sets.
• Status Quo Is God: The show never strays too far from formula, with any episodes that do ending with a Reset Button
• Sticky Situation:
  • When Gluten appears, he traps the MBC and other victims by throwing his blue ooze at them. Also the title of the episode.
  • In the Halloween Episode, Danny ends up stuck on the floor of a Haunted House — actually an alien pulling a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax — because of a giant alien pet camouflaged as the floor.
• Stuff Blowing Up: "Mindreader" and "Comic Book Heroes" feature this
• Superhero Episode: "Comic Book Heroes" featuring Cathy reading the one female heroine in the local comics shop, called Liberty Ladd and deciding to become "Cathy Lass."
• Superhero Team Uniform: The team wears black jumpsuits with Tron Lines and goggles, with each member having their lines and goggles in a different color.
• Swallowed Whole: Chris in "World's Toughest Kid" and "Cloudy with a Chance of Jellynerps"
• Swiss-Army Weapon: Each MBC Blaster can change into a Vacuvator, Double X, Alien Flasher, Sonar Blaster, or Electrobubble.
• Tabletop Games
  • In the episode "Sore Winner", Danny is forced to play a game called Demons & Daggers, a parody of Dungeons & Dragons.
  • In "Mindreader" and "Laugh Attack", Mark challenges his classmate to play a game called "Fishy Fish", a board game loosely based on Battleships.
• "Take That!" Kiss
  • Cathy gives Jeremy a kiss on the cheek as a promise after saving her friends from Herptilius.
  • There's another episode where Wendy kisses Danny on his cheek.
• Talking to Plants: Mr. Smith does this sometimes. Cathy figures it’s because he’s bored in retirement.
• Telepathic Spacemen: Elton, Cathy's cousin. He's considered as an annoying person to the MBC until they realize his ability can be useful in reading the enemy's next move.
• Terrible Trio: Mark and his cronies, Ralph and Roy.
• Those Two Guys: Ralph and Roy, Mark’s lackies.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl
  • Moochie is shorter than his wife Frieda.
• Title Drop: The title of the show.
  • "World's Toughest Kid"
  • "Battle of the Bands"
  • "The End of Everything (Part Two)"
    Cathy: Grandpa!
    Sam: The flower!
    Danny: The rocket!
    Chris: The end of everything!
  • "Galaxy's Strangest Creatures"
• Toilet Humour: In "Wrong Number", the Galactic Commander says "poopcorn" instead of popcorn.
• Tomboyish Name: Sam, though he Principal called her “Smamntha”.
• Trade Snark: Herptilius' Amphimabot. Intergalactic patent pending.
• Transformation Sequence: Changing from regular clothes to MBC suits.
• Tron Lines: The kids' fluorescent costumes give off this effect in the dark.
• Trust Me, I'm an X: In "It's Not Good to Be King", Principal Rollins attempts to cure Cathy's cold. What's worse is that the school doesn't have at least one nurse (Principal Rollins fired her for being "too soft").
• Tunnel Network: The MBC network tunnels are large enough to park the MBC Pods. Those tunnels are said to be important tools for protecting humans and aliens on Earth.
• Two-Teacher School: Principal Rollins and Mr. Fusster are the only regular characters at the school. While there’s also a Mr. Gluten, he’s mentioned as on vacation, with all of his appearances being a shape shifting alien.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: Cathy, Elton, and young Frieda's hair styles look similar.
• Universal Driver's License: Whether the MBC rides on their own pods, MBV, or a space ship, it's quite a surprise they get used to them.
• The Virus: The alien virus in "Goodbye Earth". The episode doesn't tell us what kind of effects it has, aside from being contagious to humans.
• Weaksauce Weakness
  • General Louse is afraid of bug sprays and swatters.
  • Addison has hated pigeon poop ever since he became a statue.
  • The Alcascythes are weak against flowers.
  • The Reptilian Morpher (from "Lizard Tails") and the Gumblian's main weakness is cold temperature.
• Weapons That Suck: The kids trap aliens with Vacuvators.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Addison wants to create a place where humans and aliens will live peacefully together, but he uses his real form to scare humans and destroy the MBC.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Elton is never seen after his second appearance in first season, but he was mentioned by Cathy in "Famous Four (Part Two)".
• Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Many fans notice that the location of Singletown is based somewhere on France or North America, but Word of God says Singletown is a setting where it can be anywhere.
• Whole Episode Flashback: "The End of Everything" and "Famous Four".
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Sam is scared of knitting... until she learns that Danny is stuck in the club with her.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: The MBC members are twelve years old. Cathy's a lot older, but still physically (and mentally) a kid.

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